![]() He also deserves a second Win and this is just getting silly now. You don’t normally see a Gold Starwhen facing the Tigers, but Lyles deserves that. Jordan Lyles (KC) vs DET (ND) – 6.0 IP, 0 ER, 3 Hits, 1 BBs, 4 Ks – 12 Whiffs, 30% CSW, 83 pitches. Hopefully he can have that growth this year inside the bigs. That might not happen until next season, but until then, he’s still worth the stash through the next poor matchup. ![]() Grayson has the tools to be a legit fantasy arm when he’s able to battle the batter more than himself, allowing him to sequence properly each time they step in the box. ![]() Wait for a better matchup than this one, even if it is an improvement from his April self. Up next are the Rays and I suggest benching him there, too. Meanwhile, the breakers returned a sub 50% strike rate between them, with Grayson mostly going fastball/change here. His four-seamer looks a bit more hittable than I’d like to see – just 4/45 whiffs despite the velocity can be attributed a touch to the Dodgers, but also possibly to the pitch itself – and the changeup is better at getting low, but certainly isn’t the precise pitch we want it to be. All of that said, there’s still polish left to be had. He was pumping 101 mph heaters in the first frame that came back down to 96-98 mph in subsequent frames, while he flashed some nice breakers and an occasional magnificent changeup. Grayson Rodriguezpitched well in his return to the big leagues via 5.0 IP, 4 ER, 7 Hits, 2 BBs, 4 Ks – 10 Whiffs, 30% CSW, 91 pitches. We saw a much more electric arm than we did before and the potential is ready to soar in due time. ![]() Grayson Rodriguez (BAL) vs LAD (ND) – 5.0 IP, 4 ER, 7 Hits, 2 BBs, 4 Ks – 10 Whiffs, 30% CSW, 91 pitches.ĭon’t let the fun headline, nor the final stat line fool you. Have questions? Ask me during my office hours on Twitch weekday mornings from 10 am-12 pm ET. I apologize for the jokes written in my delirium in advance. Welcome to the SP Roundup, my daily fantasy baseball article reviewing every starting pitcher’s performance from every Monday game. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The PAX-22 is useful for both scouting over long distances and knocking out individual targets at long range, but can also be fired from cover at mid ranges. This weapon has a muzzle flash, despite being a compressed air weapon. This can also happen when firing at enemies inside their line of sight from cloaking, as the muzzle flash can alarm enemies at distance. The rifle occupies a 6x2 area in your inventory, and ammo is 1x2.ĭue to the nature of the darts fired, as they follow an arc thus have longer airtime than regular gunshots, an enemy that is alarmed or suspicious (being briefly seen or heard, making enemies say "got a possible visual" and such) may flinch at the exact moment the trigger is pulled, making even a shot aimed directly at his torso or head miss and instantly make him hostile. These factors must be considered when going for long-range takedowns. Although fitted with a scope, the tranquilizer darts fired by the PAX-22 both drop and have a travel time. Headshots on vulnerable enemies will instantaneously knock out the target. Upon firing, the PAX-22 fires tranquilizer darts that inject nonlethal sedatives into the target, and after several moments the organic enemy will be incapacitated. The PAX-22 Tranquilizer Rifle is a long-range, single-shot nonlethal firearm that knocks individual targets unconscious. They consist of a mixture of different psychoactive drugs and anaesthetics such as diazepam, phencyclidine, ketamine and morphine. These are usually sold in packs of 5 darts. ![]() It uses hypodermic darts manufactured by Kaiga Incorporated under the name of "hypo-dyne black". The PAX-22 features a scope similar to the crossbow. The darts are propelled by compressed air from an HPA (High Pressure Air) tank located under the rifle's receiver. The PAX-22 is a one-shot weapon that uses break-action loading. It was intentionally developed for capture operations on wildlife and other organic targets. The PAX-22 Tranquilizer Rifle is a non-lethal, silent weapon made by Military Arms of Ostrava (MAO) located in the Czech Republic. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Escort Redline 360c has significantly greater sensitivity than just about any other detector. Rear sensitivity not as strong as the R7 and V1 Gen2.Inconsistent performance (with its current firmware).Firmware and Photo Enforcement database are both user upgradable.Bi-Lingual Voice Alerts – English & Spanish.WIFI capable to directly communicate to the Internet. ![]() Builtin Bluetooth for wireless pairing to your smartphone.One of the best anti-collision sensor rejection filtering in the industry.Exceptional at detecting instant-on police radar.Unique three horn design (two facing forward and one facing to the rear) with LNAs.All-digital signal processing (DSP) for extreme long range radar detection performance.Extreme radar sensitivity, 6dB claimed sensitivity and twice the detection range of Max 360C.Currently the most capable radar detector available on the market (for a price).We believe the Escort Redline 360c is the overall best radar detector ever made as it provides extreme performance, superior filtering, immunity from SPECTRE RDD detection, and Escort’s exceptional build-quality. The Escort Redline 360c is also a GPS enabled radar detector and rated as being both a city and highway detector like most GPS based radar detectors. The Escort Redline 360c radar detector provides full 360 degree protection with colored directional arrows along with the advanced ability to filter out most of the false alerts caused by the anti-collision sensors installed on new cars today. With built-in Wi-Fi, the Redline 360c can update itself through an on-board Wi-Fi connection, alerting the driver to the latest ticket threats in real-time. It is their answer to the Uniden R7 and the new Valentine 1 Gen2 radar detectors. The new ESCORT Redline 360c is Escort’s claimed highest performing radar detector to date. ![]() ![]() “Developers have many choices for building, innovating and migrating their applications. You can learn more about AlloyDB for PostgreSQL here. It also offers an impressive 99.99% SLA inclusive of maintenance, and no complex licensing or I/O charges. Of course, AlloyDB is fully PostgreSQL-compatible, meaning that developers can reuse their existing development skills and tools. AlloyDB’s fully-managed database operations and ML-based management systems can relieve administrators and developers from daunting database management tasks. It’s also two times faster than AWS’ comparable PostgreSQL-compatible service for transactional workloads. Our performance tests show that AlloyDB is four times faster for transaction processing and up to 100 times faster for analytical queries than standard PostgreSQL. AlloyDB combines proven, disaggregated storage and compute that powers our most popular, globally available products such as Google Maps, YouTube, Search, and Ads - with PostgreSQL, an open source database engine beloved by developers. Then, we announced the preview of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a new fully managed, relational database service that gives enterprises the performance, availability, and ease of management they need to migrate from their expensive legacy database systems and onto Google Cloud. With Cloud Run jobs, you can execute your code on the highly scalable, fully managed Cloud Run platform, but only pay when your jobs are executing - and without having to worry about managing infrastructure. On the Google Cloud front, we announced the preview of Cloud Run jobs, which can reduce the time developers spend performing administrative tasks such as database migration, managing scheduled jobs like nightly reports, or doing batch data transformation. Next up, we heard from Jeanine Banks, Google Vice President of Developer Experiences and DevRel, and a number of product teams who led us through a flurry of exciting new updates about everything from Android to Flutter to Cloud. These new features deliver high quality experiences, allowing Google Workspace users to benefit from our AI leadership. And they can filter out the reverberation in large spaces with hard surfaces, giving users “conference-room-quality” audio whether they are in their basement, kitchen, or garage. Users can also now leverage portrait restore, which automatically improves video image quality - even on devices with lower quality webcams. Automated meeting transcription for Google Meet allows users who didn’t attend a meeting to stay in the loop, or for attendees to easily reference the discussion at a later time. New advancements in NLP enable summaries in Spaces to help users catch up on missed conversations by providing a helpful digest. In the keynote, Sundar also announced new AI-enabled features in Google Workspace focused on users, that are designed to help people thrive in the hybrid workplace. The exceptionally low carbon footprint of Cloud TPU v4 Pods was another key factor.…”- Aidan Gomez, CEO and Co-Founder, Cohere “…we saw a 70% improvement in training time for our ‘extremely large’ model when moving from TPU v3 to TPU v4. ![]() ![]() “Early access to TPU v4 has enabled us to achieve breakthroughs in conversational AI programming with our CodeGen, a 16-billion parameter auto-regressive language model that turns simple English prompts into executable code.” - Erik Nijkamp, Research Scientist, Salesforce Read more about the ML hub with Cloud TPU v4 here. With eight TPU v4 pods in a single data center, generating 9 exaflops of peak performance, we believe this system is the world's largest publicly available ML hub in terms of cumulative computing power, while operating at 90% carbon-free energy. Google Cloud's machine learning cluster with Cloud TPU v4 pods (in Preview), allows researchers and developers to make AI breakthroughs by training larger and more complex models faster, to power workloads like large-scale natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, and computer vision. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off Day 1 of I/O with a powerhouse keynote highlighting recent breakthroughs in machine learning, including one of the fastest, most efficient, and most sustainable ML infrastructure hubs in the world. Let’s start with the keynotes… Google I/O keynote We do the heavy lifting, embedding the expertise from years of Google research in areas like AI/ML and security, so you can easily build secure and intelligent solutions for your customers. Google Cloud and Google Workspace had a big presence at the show, talking about our commitment to building intuitive and helpful developer experiences to help you innovate freely and quickly. This week is Google I/O, our largest developer conference, where developer communities from around the world come together to learn, catch up, and have fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although there is a staircase to the top level, it is usually accessible only by lift. The climb from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the climb from the first level to the second, making the entire ascent a 600 step climb. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift to the first and second levels. The top level's upper platform is 276 m (906 ft) above the ground – the highest observation deck accessible to the public in the European Union. The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second levels. Excluding transmitters, the Eiffel Tower is the second tallest free-standing structure in France after the Millau Viaduct. Due to the addition of a broadcasting aerial at the top of the tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres (17 ft). It was the first structure in the world to surpass both the 200-metre and 300-metre mark in height. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest human-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930. Its base is square, measuring 125 metres (410 ft) on each side. The tower is 330 metres (1,083 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris. It was designated a monument historique in 1964, and was named part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site ("Paris, Banks of the Seine") in 1991. The Eiffel Tower is the most visited monument with an entrance fee in the world: 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015. The tower received 5,889,000 visitors in 2022, up by 197 percent from 2021, when numbers dropped due to the COVID virus. Although initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, it has since become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. Locally nicknamed " La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the centerpiece of the 1889 World's Fair. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. The Eiffel Tower ( / ˈ aɪ f əl/ EYE-fəl French: tour Eiffel ( listen)) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a hole drilled the correct sized tap is then screwed gently down through the hole and as the steel used to construct the tap is hardened (HSS or high speed steel for taps and dies for softer metals and generally cobalt for harder metals) and essentially much harder than the steel you’re cutting the thread in it cuts its way down through creating a nice smooth thread.Ĩmm tap used to create a 8mm thread in a piece of steel or other metalĪ die is a similar object but where as a tap cuts a thread into a given piece of metal internally, the die cuts a thread around a piece of metal externally e.g. In the set you will get a range of different sized taps and dies for cutting different sized threads.Įssentially a “tap” is used to “tap out” a thread in a given piece of metal after you have drilled the correct sized hole. In order to cut a thread in or on a standard piece of steel you need a specific set of tools known as a tap and die set. To learn about the different methods for cutting and tapping threads in steel and other metals read on below. ![]() This can be done fairly easily using what is known as a tap and die set and with little practice you’ll be cutting your own threads in all manner of objects in no time. If you are an avid DIY’er or are involved in one of the many construction trades then at some point during a project or job you may find that you need to create a thread in a piece of metal for a bolt or that you need to cut a thread on a piece of steel for a nut. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to know what kills Japanese beetles, here are seven techniques to try. Once the larva have transformed into adults, you will need to take another approach to get rid of Japanese beetles. It’s believed that the larva of Japanese beetles is the only organism susceptible to the milky spore. The only way this works is if the grubs are feeding, so be sure to add milky spores in the autumn. Once it’s ingested by the grubs, their body fluids turn milky in color and they die, which in turn releases more of the spores into the soil. Introduce milky spore: Paenibacillus papillae, also known as milky spore, can be added to the soil and lawn where the larva will unintentionally consume it. Continue to spray once a week until grubs no longer surface. When you spray this mixture on your lawn, grubs come up to the surface, which leaves them vulnerable to birds and other predators. That mixture should cover 1,000 square feet. Dilute 2 tablespoons of liquid dishwashing soap with 1 gallon of water. Use a homemade spray to bait the grubs: In late spring and fall, when the beetles are still in grub stage, take advantage of their vulnerabilities. Try companion planting to deter Japanese beetles by mixing their favorites with plants they find distasteful, such as garlic, rue or tansy. You don’t want to build a buffet that encourages them feed and multiply. If you want to plant some Japanese beetle favorites, disperse them: You can keep some of the Japanese beetle’s preferred plants in your garden, just make sure to not group them all together. If they can choose, Japanese beetles have favorite plants to eat. ![]() ![]() Grow plants Japanese beetles aren’t drawn to: Although these pests aren’t picky eaters, they do have preferences. It’s important to know how to control Japanese beetles early on, and there are several methods to prevent grubs: Some plants are more attractive to the bugs including many fruit trees, such as apple, apricot, cherry, peach and plum, as well as birch trees, asparagus, irises, Norway maples and roses. Once they transition to adults, the beetles emerge from the ground and begin to ravage plant foliage. It’s just a matter of where they choose to dine depends on their life stage.Īs underground larva and pupae, they eat the roots of plants. The Japanese beetle eats plants throughout its life cycle. After they’re done, it looks like the skeleton of a leaf. These bugs “skeletonize” foliage, meaning they remove all the plant matter on a leaf except the vein-like support structure. You can spot Japanese beetle damage easily. More importantly, there seems to be no end to the types of plants they enjoy eating! Nowhere seems to be off limits for these bugs. They inhabit forests and fields, as well as gardens and city parks. ![]() In fact, the Japanese beetle invasion has been very challenging to control because they can easily adapt to a variety of environments. The first of these foreign pests were spotted in 1916 in a plant nursery in New Jersey, and they have been a problem ever since. After just two weeks, the pupae transform into adult beetles, and they finally emerge from the soil. It’s at this point when they reach the pupae phase. In early spring, the grubs wake from their slumber and begin feeding again. Protected by a thick 4- to 8-inch layer of soil, they remain dormant for the whole winter. The slug-like grub reaches about 1 inch in length, and by late autumn, it burrows deeper down into the ground before winter strikes. That’s the start of your problems with Japanese beetle, because at this stage, the grubs put your lawn at risk. By midsummer these eggs begin to hatch.Īfter hatching, the Japanese beetle grub begins feeding on roots and grasses. Each female produces about 40 to 60 eggs, which are laid approximately 3 inches into the soil. The life cycle of the invasive species spreads out over one year. Life Cycle of Japanese Beetles Life cycle of the Japanese Beetle. Hidden in that shipment, they were safely and secretively tucked away in the soil included in the shipment. The bug, probably in larval form, came along too. That all changed when plants and flowers were imported to the U.S. Geographic isolation and certain predators native to the island nation kept the beetle from spreading to the mainland. Until early in the 20th century, these bugs were only found in Japan. It looks exotic and rightly so, as it didn’t originate in North America. These insects have six legs, two antennae and wings. It has copper-colored back, metallic blue-green head and small white hairs that line the sides of its abdomen. It’s easy to identify the beetle by its distinctive appearance. Subscribe to the Epic Gardening Podcast on iTunes What do Japanese Beetles Look Like? Listen to this post on the Epic Gardening Podcast ![]() ![]() ![]() Download Tunnelblick, a free and user-friendly app for managing OpenVPN connections on macOS. Below you will find a guide helping you to configure a manual connection with Tunnelblick on macOS. Its also a bit more complicated to set up. All in all, NordVPN is an excellent option for enjoying secure, easy and fast browsing while avoiding restrictions and data theft. That said, it lacks the additional features of the NordVPN app but still uses the same VPN protocol OpenVPN. This technology lets you browse normally from home as if you were in a different part of the world by avoiding the restrictions of the country you are in and letting you access all the content you can't usually see.Īnother benefit of this program is that there are no bandwidth restrictions, so you can effortlessly browse at the same speed as always. Alternatively, you may use the search bar located in the top-left corner. Select your assigned dedicated IP server. Hover over the Dedicated IP category, and click on the three-dot menu. Launch the NordVPN application and locate the Specialty servers category on the right. NordVPN will automatically redirect you to the remote server, hiding your IP address and giving you a new one while encrypting your incoming and outgoing data. You can find instructions on how to switch the connection protocol here. If you don't know which VPN is the best option, the tool will recommend you one. To set a certain location, you just have to open the country menu, tap on the one you want and choose which of its servers you want. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Manual connection setup with Tunnelblick on macOS. How to connect to NordVPN with IKEv2/IPSec on macOS. Once you have a profile, you will have access to dozens of countries that you can choose between. Are you having problems connecting to NordVPN on a macOS device Troubleshoot macOS connectivity issues with NordVPN. The first and most important thing to do to use NordVPN is to register and sign up to one of their plans. If the location you are in has restricted access to certain content, or you simply want to browse without being tracked, this option has a large number of virtual networks that you can connect to with just one click. Raspberry Pi, Elementary OS, and Linux Mint How to configure your Asus router running original firmware (AsusWRT). Step 2: Reset the NordVPN application using the following method: Switching between UDP, TCP, and NordLynx protocols. Right-click the NordVPN Root CA certificate in the login keychain. ![]() First, download the NordVPN IKEv2 certificate to your Mac. NordVPN is a comprehensive tool for Mac that lets you browse securely without Internet restrictions. These instructions will help avoid undue internet restrictions when using macOS. ![]() ![]() What’s this you’re writing asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table. In The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff shows that Poohs Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned by the Chinese founders of Taoism. For example, the Taoists come off as very serious, which is a sharp contrast to the voice in the Winnie-the-Pooh story. Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the worlds most beloved bear. the author of Winnie-the-Pooh, and many others. Happy 90th birthday (10/14/16), to one of the worlds most beloved icons. For Taoists everywhere, the New York Times bestseller from the author of The Te of Piglet. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. O元913006W Page_number_confidence 89.77 Pages 178 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.8 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210308122953 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 466 Scandate 20210301180021 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog claremont Scribe3_search_id 10017021019 Tts_version 4. Read 5,507 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The Tao of Pooh Written by Benjamin Hoff Christie Cochrane English 378 Concept/Vocabulary Analysis January 6. Penguin Books, 1983 - Children - 158 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Title: The Tao of Pooh Volume 1 of Winnie-The-Pooh Series: Author: Benjamin Hoff: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: E.P. Read 602 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Urn:lcp:taoofpooh0000hoff:epub:8b4aa125-0ccc-49e1-b344-789d8244bf29 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier taoofpooh0000hoff Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5fc5bw0p Invoice 1652 Isbn 0525241248ĩ780416469608 Lccn 81019495 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-7-gc75f Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9817 Ocr_module_version 0.0.11 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18581 Openlibrary_edition Author Benjamin Hoff shows that the philosophy of Winnie-the-Pooh is amazingly consistent with the principles of Taoism and demonstrates how you can use these. He is tha author of the bestselling The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet. He is best known as the author of The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992). Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:00:52 Boxid IA40070202 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Benjamin Hoff (born 1946) is an American author. ![]() ![]() It's functional, but the multiplayer has a few glaring missed opportunities. You can also play tournament, match play, or putting challenge games with up to eight players over a Wi-Fi connection, and aside from an oddball collection of bizarre rules you can implement, it's all pretty standard stuff. Consequently, Open Tee would have been better off including the minigolf mode found in Hot Shots Golf Fore! for the PlayStation 2. It can be hard, but difficulty doesn't really translate to fun. You're given points for each ball you sink, and the farther away the hole, the greater the points. There's also a putting challenge mode where you're placed on a putting green with several different holes to one-stroke your ball into. Options like these should give you a good idea of the game's overall flavor. Sure, there are straitlaced golfer costumes and clubs and such, but you can also choose to give your golfer a fox tail or a frying pan for a golf club. Though you can't create your own custom golfer from scratch, you can adorn the unlocked golfers in a wide and bizarre array of accessories. Victories in the challenge mode will unlock courses in the stroke play mode, as well as new golfers and new accessories. ![]() This tiered single-player mode gives you a progressively more difficult series of events to compete in, such as regular match games, one-on-one competitions, and full-blown tournaments. You can practice your strokes in the training mode, but you're probably better off just learning as you go by jumping straight in to the challenge mode. Open Tee's digital mechanics offer a greater amount of control and flexibility than they initially let on, but a disconnect exists between the controls and the onscreen action, as is the hazard of such control schemes. You can choose to take a bit of the edge off the long game by automating the accuracy button press, but there's little assistance during the short game, where it's not uncommon to watch your birdie opportunity quickly dissolve into a double bogey if you don't read the break of the green properly. Despite the charming appearance, Open Tee can actually be quite challenging. When the meter is in motion, you can hold down in a direction on the D pad to add some directional spin to the ball, though once the ball is actually in the air, all you can do is stand back and watch. After lining up the direction of your shot with the D pad and selecting the proper club with the shoulder buttons, you'll tap the X button three times: once to start your power meter, again to determine the power of your swing, and a third time to determine how straight your shot is. ![]() Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee sticks, almost stubbornly, to the old-fashioned three-click swing mechanic that's been a golf game standard since the late '80s. There's nothing revolutionary here-just a good game of golf. As a result, it's a fine alternative for those who simply don't like their golf Tiger style. Open Tee capably translates the Hot Shots look and feel to the PSP, making it an accessible and entertaining golf game on its own. Despite some detestable load times, Tiger Woods has already made a solid showing on the PSP. The preferences comes down largely to gameplay mechanics, though the differences between Tiger's mostly realistic PGA style and Hot Shot's colorful anime aesthetic are significant factors, too. When it comes to console golf games, there are three options: You like Tiger Woods, you like Hot Shots, or you don't like console golf games. ![]() |
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